Title
Modern Canada, 1930-1980's
Abstract
[This book] is the last of a 5-volume series of readers designed to present an overview of Canada's social history, encompassing such topics as economic development, social structure, protest and violence, social control, work and workers, and the changing role of women. In this volume the editors have commissioned a collection of original essays designed to provide a scholarly response to the vital questions: "Who are we as a people? How did we become what we are?" The extent and influence of foreign ownership in the post-war world is examined by Paul Phillips and Stephen Watson. David Wolfe chronicles the emergence of the welfare state after the war and its recent decline. Michael Behiels explores the ideological tensions among federalist, nationalist, and socialist intellectuals in Quebec and Canada. Ruther Pierson and Marjorie Cohen discuss sexual bias in federal manpower policies in depression, war, and reconstruction. The struggles of labour, management, and government are examined in articles by Wayne Robert and John Bullen, and by Wallace Clement. And the education system as a instrument of social control is the subject of Paul Axelrod's essay. --Publisher's description
Series
Readings in Canadian social history
Publisher
McClelland and Stewart
Notes
Contents: I. Economic overview. From mobilization to continentalism: The Canadian economy in the post-Depression period / Paul Phillips and Stephen Watson -- The rise and demise of the Keynesian era in Canada: Economic policy, 1930-1982 / David A. Wolfe. II. Social structure. Canada's social structure: Capital, labour and the state, 1930-1980 / Wallace Clement. III. The working class. A heritage of hope and struggle: Workers, unions and politics in Canada, 1930-1982 / Wayne Robert and John Bullen. IV. Violence and protest. Quebec: Social transformation and ideological renewal, 1940-1976 / Michael D. Behiels. V. Social control. Higher education, utilitarianism, and the acquisitive society, 1930-1980 / Paul Axelrod. VI. Women. Educating women for work: Government training programs for women before, during, and after World War II / Ruth Roach Pierson and Marjorie Cohen.
Citation
Cross, M. S., & Kealey, G. S. (Eds.). (1984). Modern Canada, 1930-1980’s (Vol. 5). McClelland and Stewart. https://archive.org/details/moderncanada19300005unse/page/n3/mode/2up